How to set up Google Analytics for React-Router?

Question

I\'m trying set up Google Analytics on my react site, and have come across a few packages, but none of which has the kind of set up that I have in terms of examples. Was ho

Answer 1

First, in your index.js set onUpdate function to call ga

import ga from 'ga.js';
onUpdate() {
  console.log('=====GA=====>', location.pathname);
  console.log('=====GA_TRACKING_CODE=====>', GA_TRACKING_CODE);
  ga("send", "pageview", location.pathname);
}

render() {
  return (
    <Router onUpdate={this.onUpdate.bind(this)}>...</Router>
  );
}

And ga.js:

'use strict';
if(typeof window !== 'undefined' && typeof GA_TRACKING_CODE !== 'undefined') {
  (function(window, document, script, url, r, tag, firstScriptTag) {
    window['GoogleAnalyticsObject']=r;
    window[r] = window[r] || function() {
      (window[r].q = window[r].q || []).push(arguments)
    };
    window[r].l = 1*new Date();
    tag = document.createElement(script),
    firstScriptTag = document.getElementsByTagName(script)[0];
    tag.async = 1;
    tag.src = url;
    firstScriptTag.parentNode.insertBefore(tag, firstScriptTag);
  })(
    window,
    document,
    'script',
    '//www.google-analytics.com/analytics.js',
    'ga'
  );

  var ga = window.ga;

  ga('create', GA_TRACKING_CODE, 'auto');

  module.exports = function() {
    return window.ga.apply(window.ga, arguments);
  };
} else {
  module.exports = function() {console.log(arguments)};
}

Answer 2

I suggest using the Segment analytics library and following the React quickstart guide to track page calls using the react-router library. You can allow the <Route /> component to handle when the page renders and use componentDidMount to invoke page calls. The example below shows one way you could do this:

    const App = () => (
      <div>
        <Switch>
          <Route exact path="/" component={Home} />
          <Route path="/about" component={About} />
        </Switch>
      </div>
    );

    export default App;

    export default class Home extends Component {
      componentDidMount() {
        window.analytics.page('Home');
      }

      render() {
        return (
          <h1>
            Home page.
          </h1>
        );
      }
    }

I’m the maintainer of https://github.com/segmentio/analytics-react. With Segment, you’ll be able to switch different destinations on-and-off by the flip of a switch if you are interested in trying multiple analytics tools (we support over 250+ destinations) without having to write any additional code.

Answer 3

I would suggest using the excellent react-router-ga package that is extremely lightweight and easy to configure, especially when using the BrowserRouter wrapper.

Import the component:

import Analytics from 'react-router-ga';

Then simply add the <Analytics> within your BrowserRouter:

<BrowserRouter>
    <Analytics id="UA-ANALYTICS-1">
        <Switch>
            <Route path="/somewhere" component={SomeComponent}/>
        </Switch>
    </Analytics>
</BrowserRouter>